Peter frantz



P. FRANTZ.

DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1. 1919.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

UNlTED STATES PALIENT QFHQE,

PETER FRANTZ, 0F STEBLING, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO FRANIZ MANUFACTURING 00., 0F STERLING, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS,

DOOR-HANGER.

Application filed. March '7,

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER FnAN'rz, a c1t1- zen of the United States of America, and a resident of Sterling, Illinois, have lnvented a certain new and useful Improvement 111 Door-Hangers, of which the followlng 1s a sperification.

This invention relates to door hangers 111 general, but more particularly to those which are employed for supporting barn doors on tracks, so that the doors will slide back and forth readily, in the well known manner.

Generally stated, the object of the invention is to provide improved means for supporting the door on the truck or wheeled body of the traveling hanger, so that the wheels of the hanger will not be as liable to be displaced from the track upon which they travel, and whereby the hanger may be mamifactured with less expense than here tofore.

It is also an object to provide certain details and features of construction and co1nbinations tending to increase the general ethciency and the desirability of a door hanger of this particular construction.

To these and other useful ends, the 111- vention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is an. inside front elevation of a hanger embodying the principles of the 1nvention, showing the track and housing in dotted lines, and showing a portion of the door to which the hanger is attached.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective of the dlfferent parts of the hanger, wlth the wheels removed, and showing the drop strap separated from the hook which is employed to connect the strap with the body of the hanger.

ig. 4: is a horizontal section on. line 4:-4 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on line 5 5 in Fig. 2.

As thus illustrated, the invention comprises a pair of side bars 1 connected together by a central pivot 2 and provided at their ends with wheels 3 which have grooved peripheries. The hook 4 has its upper portion inserted between the middle POItlOIlS of the bars 1, and is held in this position by the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec, 14, 1920.

1919. Serial No. 281,145.

pivot 2, whereby said hook is free to swing 011 said pivot. Said hook has an inwardly curved middle portion 5 which extends downwardly and around the track 6 upon which the wheels travel, and it then extends outwardly and downwardly to the curved portion 7 which forms the hollow of the hook, and which has an upwardly and outwardly extending portion 8 to engage the smooth bottom surface of the gutter 9 of said. track, thereby to keep the wheels from being displaced in the track. Said gutter, it will be seen, is formed outside of the grooved wheels 3 of the truck. The drop strap 10 is formed from a single r ctangular plate of metal, with an opening 11 in its upper end portion and with the portions 12 bent outwardly at each side of said opening, so that the portion 13 cut out of said opening is left upstanding in the vertical plane of the drop strap. The portions 12, it will be seen, are connected together by the horizontal portion 1 1 which is preferably disposed in a vertical plane, and which rests in the hollow of the hook, on the portion 7, in the manner shown in the drawings. The drop strap 10 is connected with the door 15 by bolts 16, or by any suitable means, the strap being provided with holes 17 for this purpose. It will also be seen that the upper edge portion of the door 15 is recessed or cut away at 18 to form a cavity for the portion 8 of the hook, and to form a wider cavity 19 for the portions 12 and 14, whereby the engaging portions of the hook and drop strap will set into the upper edge portion of the door.

lVith the foregoing construction, the drop strap 10 comprises only a single piece of metal, and is economical to manufacture, and the balance of the hanger is also comparatively inexpensive to make. In addition, the door is well balanced on the hanger, the portion 14.- being directly under the up per end portion 20 of the hook, or approximately so, whereby the truck of the hanger is maintained upright on the track, and with suflicient clearance between the truck and the building, as well as between the truck and the outer wall of the housing 21, by which the track is supported, and which can be of any suitable character. The portion 8 engages the bottom portion 9 of the track, as explained, to keep the wheels from rising from the track, so that the hook has this purpose, as well as to support the door on the truck. The upstanding portion 13 will engage the back of the hook, thus preventing the truck and its Wheels from leaning inwardly against the outer side of the building.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a door hanger, the combination of a wheeled truck adapted to travel on a track over the door way, a hook depending from said truck, and a drop strap to connect the door with said hook, said drop strap having outwardly bent portions connected by an integral horizontal portion which rests in the hollow of the hook, with an opening inclosed by said portions, and an upstanding portion formed by the metal cut out from said opening to engage the side of said hook, the drop strap thus constructed being formed from a single piece of sheet metal, with said horizontal portion displaced from the vertical plane of said upstanding portion.

2. In a door hanger, the combination of truck having grooved wheels adapted to travel on a track over the doorway, with a gutter in said track at the outer side of said wheels, ahousing to support said track, a hook depending from said truck, a drop strap for supporting the door in the hollow of the hook, and means on the hook arranged to extend a distance above the lower edge of the housing to engage the bottom oil said gutter, thereby to keep the truck on the track, the top of the drop st up being flush with the top of the door, so that the hook extends a distance downward into the top portion of the door.

3. A structure as specified in claim 1, said outwardly bent portions of the drop strap being disposed in an inclined plane, and said horizontal portion being bent relatively to said inclined portions to stand in the vertical plane of the wheels of said. truck when its lower edge rests in the hook.

4. A structure as specified in claim 2, said means consisting of an end portion of the hook which extends upwardly from a point below the upper edge of the door to a point some distance above said door.

Si ned b PETER FRANTZ. 

